Masterton

Masterton is a town in the south of the North Island of New Zealand. It is the capital and administrative center of the Masterton District (English: Masterton District Council ), which is located in the Wellington region.

History

Masterton was founded on May 19, 1854 by Joseph Masters, after which the town is named.

The term " city " for Masterton is actually wrong, because the minimum population number for a city in New Zealand was raised in 1989 by the then in Masterton almost reached 20,000 inhabitants at least 50,000 inhabitants.

Population

In the area around Masterton live according to a population extrapolation of June 2011 Round 23,500 people, 20,200 of them in the town itself

Climate

Twinning

  • Japan Hatsukaichi, Japan
  • Chile Changchun, Jilin Province, People's Republic of China
  • Australia Armidale, Australia

Daughters and sons

The following personalities were born in Masterton:

  • Alan MacDiarmid, chemist and Nobel Prize winner
  • Vern Hanaray ( b. 1951 ), cyclist
  • Brian Lochore, rugby union player and coach
  • Aaron Slight, motorcycle racer
  • Arthur Norman Prior, philosopher and logician
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